Featuring homemade masa dough and a chipotle-cheese filling, these vegetarian tamales are a labor of love that's worth the ...

And although some people make them at home, there are plenty of places in Merced to buy them. The casual eatery uses a ...

You can even make sweet dessert tamales by sweetening your masa dough and adding things like cream cheese and fruit. But if it's your first time making them, you may just want to go the ...

and other fillings inside a corn flour dough. The bundle is wrapped in a corn husk or banana leaves and steamed. The process of making tamales is labor intensive and is often part of family ...

Many hands make work light when it comes to tamale-making. From left Aria García helps her mom and the hostess behind the evening's gathering, Sara Klein, as friends Luis Infante of San Luis Poto ...

One way to take some of the work out of making tamales, without sacrificing flavor ... Spread half of the tamal dough or masa in a single layer over the bottom of the baking dish.

masa (maize dough), shredded pork, cheese, chili peppers and homemade salsa verde (green salsa), all the ingredients she needs to make a batch of tamales. Assembling one tamal at a time ...

"Family stories are often created while making tamales or cooking together," Phillips ... about the size of a softball. The dough is softer and more moist. In the Caribbean nations of Trinidad ...

Eventually she learned, adapting her mother-in-law’s recipe to her own taste over the years, because one thing’s for sure: No two Costa Rican matriarchs make their tamales exactly the same way. Doña ...

When purchasing masa on its own, customers can make their own version of a ... including its popular corn-husked tamales. Their meat-to-dough ratio and buttery consistency makes them a sought ...

The casual eatery uses a technique called nixtamalization to make its tamale dough from scratch. Nixtamalization is an ancient technique in which field corn is boiled in limewater. The process ...